On: Mocking Bird – Realtime Voice Clone for Chinese

[goblin89]

Supports only Mandarin, so description is slightly disingenuous.

[Asraelite → goblin89]

For anyone else wondering, the original title was "Clone a voice in 5 seconds to generate arbitrary speech in real-time"

[goblin89 → Asraelite]

Yes. I reckon “Mocking Bird – Realtime Voice Clone for Mandarin” might’ve been a more appropriate change, but it’s always easy to criticise after the fact…

[drekk → goblin89]

It's forked from an English version

[goblin89 → drekk]

Interesting, what’s the upstream? Must’ve missed the link.

[ximeng → goblin89]

https://github.com/CorentinJ/Real-Time-Voice-Cloning this one maybe?

[goblin89 → ximeng]

Ah, looks like it!

[fortran77 → goblin89]

12% of the world speaks Mandarin, so it's a good first choice!

[goblin89 → fortran77]

This is not about some sort of language leaderboard. If you see the title (as phrased) written in %language%, you’d expect the proposed thing to work in that language.

Anyway, as someone else pointed out it’s a fork, so it’s understandable if docs weren’t fully updated from upstream.

[jsilence → goblin89]

If the title were written in Mandarin I would have no clue at all what this software is about.

I too was slightly disappointed to find in the repo that this version is for Mandarin, but the amount of life time lost by clicking on a Github link does not make me want to complain about it. I got over it pretty quickly.

[goblin89 → jsilence]

Speak for yourself if you experienced disappointment. I just clicked through, looked at it and left a note that technical merits aside the title is technically clickbait, that’s all.